Projects: Health Care

Results

Don’t believe everything you read about the great liberalization of Myanmar underway since 2011. The former hermit state is still politically unstable and the economy has fallen further behind neighboring countries.

For the past three decades, Thailand has been at or near the top of Southeast Asia’s fastest growing economies. The boom, however, has barely touched the rural Northeast, the North, nor the slums of the capital city, Bangkok.

Access to quality primary health care is a fundamental human right. This principle is the cornerstone of the St Antoine Dispensary in northwest Beirut. The Dispensary Saint-Antoine was established by a local bishop in 1987 during the Lebanese civil war.

Just over a dozen years ago a group of women from the slums of Embu, having nowhere else to turn, called on the Good Shepherd Sisters of Kenya. These women were the victims of particularly oppressive cultural practices and sexual discrimination.

The Angola miracle is a description economists sometimes give to the impressive recovery the country has witnessed since 2002 when warring factions finally put down their weapons, ending a 27-year civil war.

Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. The 2010 Human Development Index (HDI) report for Latin America and the Caribbean went into further detail: Bolivians suffer from chronically low rates of literacy, education, life expectancy, and quality of life levels.

Today, nearly one in four Indians are born into one of the thousands of clans, tribes and sub-communities that make up the country’s harsh caste system, known officially as the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes of India.